5 OS Pleasures in your Day Today part 2

VickyA_2

Evening everyone! :hello:

Watched the marvellous :money: on his Martin Lewis Show. Brilliant, as ever!

My class watched an amazing Young Shakespeare production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. They were incredible, getting the children involved, which meant that my Year 3s and 4s accessed Shakespeare. No mean feat.

So, my pleasures for today:

1) Took a flask of HM Golden Vegetable Soup (Hairy Dieters' recipe) for lunch today. It was divine.

2) Pasta & veg sauce for supper.

3) NSD

4) Watching Torvill & Dean on BBC2. Love, love, love their talent. Simply incredible!

5) Trying to plan birthday presents for the next couple of months. Not many, but it does include my dad and brother's birthdays.

I hope you've all had a good day.

Caterina

Good evening!

1. DH birthday, he looks and feels great for his age (63) thanks God!
2. Walk through park and tea with friend
3. Found the perfect gift for DH (waterproof workout outfit) and he loved up it, told me I had read his mind (I do, like all wives of 20+ years)!
4. Dinner out with DH and DD, Chinese, very tasty and reasonably priced
5. My bed! It's so comfy!

Good night.

Kittikins

Happy Birthday Mr Caterina

Debtphobic_Dinah

Hi all, lovely day up here today

: Finished work a bit early and came home, lovely loong conversation with DD at Uni on Skype (so free).

: A couple of glasses of Torro Loco A1di wine to celebrate arrival of weekend.

: 3rd no spend day in a row, although this will be last as need milk, fruit andother food tomorrow as well as deisel.

: Risotto for tea from stores was delicious.

: Watched opening ceremony for Winter Olympics, lovely show.

sparrer

1. Handed the night phone line over to day person, let dog out, made a cuppa and went back to bed to finish my book. Got up at 9.50am Shameful
2. Eventually got around to putting the new loo seat on. Have previously bought two of same model, both times the rh hinge snapped. Didn't think I was that heavy! Have bought something completely different this time, hope it's third time lucky. Nice not to have to balance precariously in fear of falling down the loo
3. The rain has brought disaster for so many and I understand the frustration and heartbreak, but today I heard one 'victim' speak sense. He said 'what's the point of screaming at the government, blaming this politician and that one. They didn't make it rain'.
4. Made my first loaf using all @ldi ingredients. Have to say it looks and smells just as good as when I use branded flour and yeast, but a third cheaper.
5. Torville and Dean: A Perfect Day. Not because they won gold but because after 30 years I'm still rapt every time I see it.

Sweet dreams

Broomstick

Evening all.

Five pleasures for Friday:

1. Lovely phone call first thing with a friend who is tackling the same issues with the same difficult person as me. It calmed me down no end talking with her.

2. Car filled with petrol, recycling and other stuff taken to the dump, big supermarket shop done (and another £12 off voucher used) including picnic food for the weekend.

3. Our LL has sorted out a builder to come and quote for the fence (not that I think it should be fixed until the jet stream has calmed down and everything has dried out. )

4. DSs have gone round the outside of the house and garage tonight re-sandbagging just in case. We are away tomorrow night and I want to leave things flood ready. (Then it won't happen!) Our bit of the river is fine but upstream is looking a bit dodgy.

5. Listening to bits and pieces of radio drama (crime) on iplayer while I tidy and sort and pack. Very companionable the radio...

Sweet dreams.

B x

Edited to add: Oooh thanks for the heads up on Torville and Dean - I'll give up on crime and have that on in the background instead!

Frith

Bit tired so I'll just do my pleasures for today:


1) Not a bad sleep.


2) Met Fred and saw my allotment! Very excited. :-) It has a shed! And a pond with goldfish in!! And some strawberries and rhubarb. :-)


3) Went to see my mum and dad for a cup of tea.


4) Phone call from the NHS to say my gastroscopy will be on Monday of half term at 8.30am. :-/ Had a bit of a chat with the lady on the phone and she said hardly anyone in Worcester has sedation so I should be OK to drive there and back. Got to give up the tablets I was put on last month so goodness knows what the pain will be like in a few days!


5) Picked sons up from school and went back to the allotment with a flask of hot chocolate and some celebratory cakes. They have huge plans for it....


6) Tonne of logs delivered by nice, local man.


7) Brother came to help me wheelbarrow logs round the back of the house and for tea.


8) Chicken kievs for tea with roast pots, broccoli and carrots. Then the rest of last night's crumble and custard.


9) Looking forward to going to bed soon and listening to iplayer.

Purple_kitten

McHags: I am envious of the heat a little bit, I was standing looking out at the animals loving playing in the rain but there has been so much continually, the damp sets up all sorts of ailments, I reminisced to the time we spent in Canada, where my asthma seemed so much better and we just felt healthier the perfect summer environment, not sure I would be able to cope with their quantity of snow in the winter thou.:)
1. A great day up early and I got through a whole load of work done by 9.30 it felt good to have done and dealt with the usual end of the world Friday panic.
2. Cooked up some bacon bits coupled with more rtc rolls it was lovely lunch.:o
3. This evening we popped across the bridge to Costco for some bits, cooking oil for the car, flea treatments for the cat, meat for us and other bits and pieces meant it was one of those expensive shops but done for the right reasons as it’s all more expensive else where.
4. While there we popped over to the pound shop for cheap cake treats that friends are fond of, 4.99 else where and well not there obviously.:rotfl:
5. We stopped for a bit of a cheeky takeaway, we had a survey thing we got 25% off and we didn’t half scoff it.:p
6. While on the way out I caught the petrol station prices out of the corner of my eye to the point we went round the roundabout and back to fill the tank up as it was so much cheaper than over here:rotfl:
7. Added in having seen the tonne pleasure today reminded me we had a pallet tonne of litter delivered today, and we moved 100 10kg bags through the house to the shed and it feels like it..

DundeeDoll

Gosh well after midnight how did that happen? bop i shared it here cos you's my friends :-) entered another one closing date 30 mins ago. Poem this time. Fingers crossed.
1) took last night's ledtovers in tiffin pot for lunch
2) 'new' old gloves fit like well gloves, thanks for the tip re stretching them while wet
3) wrote silly poem for comp. reminded how much i enjoy writing silly poems
4) reverbed 3p. Ok so was in pub and bought round but you get the idea :-)
5) got overcharged in bistro and wueried it. Well done me (i'm usually such a wimbo!)
Murrayfield tomoz. Xmas pressie to us all from dd2. Her bf is scottish so will be interesting seeing who she supports! Gonna wrap up warm and sing my heart out. Swing low sweet chariot..l

mcculloch29

The reason I was posting late last night was the same reason I am posting late tonight. I'd fallen asleep over the laptop earlier in the evening.
This time I missed the Torvill and Dean prog which was a little annoying. I did manage to watch The Last Leg and record Alan Davies' Apres Ski, which looks like being quite a good show. I love The Last Leg.
I loved the Winter Olympic opening ceremony.

There was an utterly enchanting film at the start showing the Cyrillic alphabet and highlighting great Russians who had a name beginning with one of those initials, or inventions / creations. The film was beautiful and ethereal, absolutely stunning.
Gagarin was there, Kandinsky, Tchaikovsky, Chagall, Sikorsky, the Lunar rover - it was lovely.

That will do for my five... Getting a bit windy outside and the ground is sodden but we are lucky.